-In an increasingly change-driven world,
leaders are called upon to evolve their mind-sets and skill-sets to reflect and
serve the demands of the new millennium.

Creative thinking and problem solving
are shown to be indispensable to leaders who want to thrive in times of complexity
and change.

These post-modern environments require leaders with new
mind-sets and skill sets; leadership must be flexible enough to not simply
permit change to occur, but to help initiate and then manage it.

we propose a new leadership paradigm, that of creative
leadership, which is grounded in both the rich history of the leadership field
and decades of work training professionals in creative thinking and creative
problem solving.

The seemingly disparate fields of leadership and creativity
are linked together by change; leadership is requiring it, and creativity helps
leaders achieve it.

Ultimately, creative leadership is about establishing a
climate that encourages our innate creativity, and provides leaders with the skills
to facilitate processes, such as problem solving, in new and useful ways. (The
place of e-learning)

Why We Need Creative Leadership?

As we are more than a decade into the 21st century, it has
become abundantly clear that we are experiencing change at a level never before
seen in human history.

A brief examination of
some of the trends in the new millennium underscore this fact, such as shorter
and shorter product life cycles (e.g., high tech products undergo fundamental
redesign every 6 to 12 months),

erosion of a stable and predictable work life (e.g., school
age children today can expect to change jobs 11 times before they hit their
mid-forties),

and more than 60% (although not confirmed) of the Nigerian
workforce now hold jobs considered to be part of the creative economy (compared
to roughly 10% in 1900).

Based on these trends, many national education experts and Fortune
500 company leaders now argue that creativity and innovation have become crucial
21st century skills (National Center on Education and the Economy, 2008;
Trilling & Fadel, 2009).

We agree and contend that leading in times and contexts that
are increasingly complex require leaders to adopt new and more creative mind-sets and skillsets – the need
for e-learning

A recent major study by IBM (IBM Corporation,
2010) found that the complexity manifest in today’s world is only expected to
increase, and that a primary concern of CEO’s globally lies in their ability to
initiate and manage change.

According
to the over 1500 CEO’s that participated in the study, “creativity is the most
important leadership quality”

This finding is echoed in a recent article by
Newsweek (Bronson & Merryman, 2010) which reinforced the fact that not only
is creativity a “part of normal brain function”, but “that lack of creativity –
not having loads of it – is [a] real risk factor” when it comes to initiating
and managing change, a key 21st century leadership skill.

We need to
acknowledge that creativity is both being seen as increasingly important to
leadership practice, and to showcase the fact that leading creatively involves
a learnable skill-set
that is available to everyone.

Creative Leadership Defined

At
the most basic level, creativity can be defined as the production of something
“novel

and
useful” (Puccio, Murdock & Mance, 2007, p. 21).

This
definition can be applied to products, policies or processes.

If
we understand leadership as being about “positively influencing people,
contexts and outcomes” (Puccio et al, 2007, p. xvi), we can more specifically
define creative leadership in the following manner:

·The ability to deliberately engage one’s
imagination to define and guide a group towards a novel goal—a direction that
is new for the group.

·As a
consequence of bringing about this creative change, creative leaders have a
profoundly positive influence on their context (i.e., workplace, community,
school, family, etc.) and the individuals in that situation. (Puccio, Mance
& Murdock, 2011)

My
own take on the definition of Creative Leadership is as follows:

ØIt
is the ability to use available resources to solve complex issues.

ØIt
is employing the invisible towards solving the impossible.

ØIt
is using unseen ideas to solve existing challenges

ØIt
is exploring imaginative capabilities.

ØIt
is engaging the mind to draw virtues inherent in the divine.

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